Comments & Reviews to the Movie «The Highway Rat»

Year Two Puffins have just finished Roald Dahl’s ‘George’s marvellous medicine.’ (A class favourite thanks to Mr Taborn in Year One.) They will be reading ‘The highway rat’ by Julia Donaldson today. #HothamPrimary

Decided to buy some books to explore literacy in children’s books. “The Day the Crayons Quit” by , ‘The Highway Rat’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘The Dam’ by (thank you to for the recommendation!). All books will be revised on my website soon!

The Highway Rat Posters

Le Rat scélérat Photo Gallery

Yesterday’s #thepeakandpitcollective
Peak: The weather was beautiful so we headed to Hick’s Lodge to walk/cycle ‘The Highway Rat’ trail. We also decided that today was the day to remove a stabiliser from Henry’s bike and, after at least 30 minutes of whining, we managed to coax him onto the bike. Henry is an over-thinker. His main concern was that he would fall off and drown in a ditch. Liam says it was like listening to me on a driving lesson.
After a little while he finally rumbled that if you go really fast - or at least keep pedalling - the bike is more likely to stay upright and that, if you lean far enough to the left, the bike isn't as likely to fall over. Small steps.
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Pit: Liam has a Monzo bank card to keep track of his finances and he tops it up as and when he needs to pay for something. Today he said he’d pay for the coffee and cakes post cycle, so off I went into the cafe clutching the bright orange bank card. “You won’t lose that card, it’s so bright!” said the lady behind the counter. “I definitely won’t,” I replied. “It’s my husband’s card so I’ll be keeping hold of it for as long as possible.” Cue polite laughter. Two seconds later the card declined. I was mortified. After the conversation we’d just had I then had the embarrassment of fishing out my own bank card to pay. As I walked out Liam was smiling. “I’m so sorry. I forgot to move the cake money onto the card. I’ve done it now though.” Too little, too late.
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So Today: He’s transferring me the money - with added embarrassment tax.

It would seem I'm a little rat!! Followed the Highway Rat Trail at Bedgbury yesterday, had a great day out. #bedgebury #juliadonaldson #trail #forestfun #funtimes #greatoutdoors #smile #rat #imnotreallyarat

🐀🎨’STAND AND DELIVER!’🌈🎨
The Highway Rat week did not disappoint!! Making swords, eating choccie bikkies, scoffing Carrot Cake and some crazy Sleeping Ducky’s! It was so busy I forgot to take any pics!
Massive thank you to all that came ❤️More creative, messy fun planned for Monday!! #jojoslittlecrafters #juliadonaldson #messymondayisback #mondayfunday ❤️

Today was our final Forest School of the summer holidays. We headed into the woods at The Marist, Sunninghill where the children played, explored and tried some of activities inspired by some storytelling of the wonderful book The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson. The children made cakes fit for The Highway Rat in our growing mobile mud kitchen. At the end of the session we cooked pancakes 🥞 on the campfire and ate them with honey and blueberries. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Forest School sessions throughout the summer. #storytelling #screenfree #literatureoutdoors #summerholidays #forestschool #woods #woodland #woodlandlearning #wildchild #schoolholidays #campfire #campfirecooking #mudkitchen #blueberries #pancakes #pancakesandblueberries #cakes #cupcakes #mudcakes #denbuilding #forest #thankyou

Thank you once again to @axelscheffler for signing some of his books for us! Limited numbers of signed copies of #thegruffalo, #thestickman, #thehighwayrat, and #roomonthebroom are available at our Fulham studio now!
#potterycafe #pottery_cafe #potterycafefulham #axelscheffler #axelschefflerandjuliadonaldsonbooks

D A Y S O U T • We visited Cardinham Woods this week and did their trail. We love the Julia Donaldson trails at @forestrycommeng woods. We've done The Gruffalo close to home, Stickman in The Lakes and now this one. This booklet 👆🏻has so many lovely tasks for children to do along the way like this journey stick and the pack provides everything you need. Cardinham woods has such a lovely tea rooms too and a stream running all the way through where children can paddle and play. So lovely! We even enjoyed it all in the rain ☔️🌧